News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

30 October 2014 - UNIOGBIS Gender Unit in collaboration with the Ministry of Women, Family and Social Cohesion, women's organizations held a two days' workshop to discuss gender constitutional issues and women's Human Rights…

31 October 2014 - UNIOGBIS PIU held on 30-31 October in Bafatá (east) a training workshop on "Building Public Opinion in a Democratic State", the second of four, covering all the nine regions of Guinea-Bissau, in the…

3 November 2014 - A United Nations Strategic Assessment Mission (SAM) is in the country for a two-week task to conduct a comprehensive review of the mandate of UNIOGBIS.The eleven-man delegation led by Christopher Coleman…

10 November 2014 - A team of the UN Strategic Assessment Mission (SAM), in the country since last week, visited over the weekend the city of Bafatá, east, accompanied by the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary…

12 November 2014 - The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Guinea-Bissau -SRSG-, Miguel Trovoada, is heading to New York for high-level meetings on Guinea-Bissau.On 18 November, SRSG Trovoada will…

14 November 2014 - UNIOGBIS Public Information Unit held on 13-14 November in Buba, south of the country, a two day training workshop activity on "Building Public Opinion in a Democratic State", the third of four covering all…

14 November 2014 - The United Nations Strategic Assessment Mission (SAM) has ended today its two-week visit in Guinea-Bissau. "A very useful mission with the full collaboration of the authorities and a broad array of the…

25 November 2014 - The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peace-Building Office in Guinea-Bissau, known as UNIOGBIS, so that it can continue to assist in tackling a range of political…

28 November 2014 - UNIOGBIS Public Information Unit finished today in Bissau, a two-day training on "Building Public Opinion in a Democratic State”, the fourth and last covering all the nine regions of the country, within the…

04 December 2014 - A three-day training on Amnesty, Human Rights and Gender today opened at the Parliament with the support of UNIOGBIS. The first vice-president of Parliament, Inacio Correia, hosted the opening ceremony…

9 December 2014 - The world celebrates International Human Rights Day, like every year, on Wednesday, 10 December, under the theme "All Human Rights, for All People, Every Day". "For many people in Guinea-Bissau, this is not…

21 January 2015 - Guinea-Bissau's human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the second time on Friday 23 January 2015 at Palais des Nations, Geneva…